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This review furnishes data in support of the suggestion that an ultradian basic rest-activity cycle is involved in the functioning of the central nervous system and manifests itself in the alternation of non-REM and REM sleep and a similar periodicity in wakefulness.
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Nathaniel Kleitman (1982) studied this question.
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